new to defy

scottie1973

Posted 11 April 2011 - 09:25 PM

scottie1973

Newbie

Members

32 posts

Location:England

Devices:Defy

hey all
im new to the defy and gotta say im loving it!!!.what i wanted to know is the best way for me to upgrade to 2.2 as ive got it on a contract from t-mobile and really don't want to brick it!!
ive rooted it using superoneclick method with no probs and ive downloaded add.thebad's super defy pack,does the guide work ok with uk T-mobile firmware version 2.1-update1,and build jrdnem_u3_2.51.1?
also is everything working with the 2.2 version in add.thebad's defy pack?

add.thebad

Posted 11 April 2011 - 10:36 PM

firstly its almost impossible to brick the defy so its hard on the outside and quite tough on the inside tooalso my pacage works for uk tmobile thats what im onhowever it is now outdated and their are easyer methods

i think you can just flash this downloadi should probably update the guide tooflash the nandroid then straight into bootloaderthe flash .sbf via rds lite.

put the nandroid on ur sdcard in folders called "goapkrev" and inside that "backup"ok you need to install clock work recovery from my ultimate defy packagethen boot into clock work recoverychoose back up>then select the nandroidwait for that to do its stuffthen pull battery outthen enter bootloader by holding volume up and power for 5 secsthen connect phone to pcmake sure you have moto drivers and rsd installedthen in rsd lite choose the "3.4.3_11-Fixed.BLUR.sbf" file and clickwait for that to finish and that should be it

if you get a boot loop enter recovery power and volume down for 5 secs you should get a black screenthen volume up and down at the same timewipe all datareboot!

that should be froyo!!you can now install a custom rom ontop of that if you wish

thats from memory but i think that should workany questions ill try to help

fredewis

Posted 12 April 2011 - 05:34 PM

choose back up>then select the nandroidwait for that to do its stuff...ok ive got that far it says :nandroid-backup-restore-advanced restore-++++go back++++

what do i want it to do?..sorry for the daft questions

have you backed up your phone original rom? if it finish then you want it to restore the back up for 2.2 that you downloaded(advance , restore then press on system) you put in your phone....then after the restore is done unplug the battery and volume up plus power and plug it to your pc then run the sbf fix from your pc to flash it over and be able to downgrade if im correct,.....i had a deffy 3 weeks ago from tmob too and these guy sorted me out.

add.thebad

Posted 12 April 2011 - 05:36 PM

choose back up>then select the nandroidwait for that to do its stuff...ok ive got that far it says :nandroid-backup-restore-advanced restore-++++go back++++

what do i want it to do?..sorry for the daft questions

choose restore now and select the folder you put on ur sd card unger gopkrev/backup then as fredewis says

you want it to restore the back up you put in your phone....then after the restore is done unplug the battery and volume up plus power and plug it to your pc then run the sbf fix from your pc to flash it over and be able to downgrade if im correct,.....i had a deffy 3 weeks ago from tmob too and these guy sorted me out.

scottie1973

Posted 12 April 2011 - 06:39 PM

scottie1973

Newbie

Members

32 posts

Location:England

Devices:Defy

im doing sommit wrong here...

i created a folder called called goapkrev and inside that i made a folder called backup and copied all the files from nandroid into the backup folder..is that right so far?
only when i goto restore it says no files exist

scottie1973

Posted 12 April 2011 - 08:53 PM

scottie1973

Newbie

Members

32 posts

Location:England

Devices:Defy

i made a backup of my system,then goto restore and it only finds that backup not giving me the option of restoring either of the ones in goapkrev backup or clockworkmod backup..so im gueesing im doing something wrong still....

scottie1973

Posted 12 April 2011 - 10:23 PM

ok sussed out the the restore problem,now onto the next bit
ive booted holding the up button and get to :
bootloader 09.10

battery ok
ok to program
transfer mode:
usb

windows installed the drivers,ive restarted the pc,run rsdlite ,set it to the fixed sbf file but when i try to run it it says "failed flashing process""unable to retrieve initialization values from INI file"